Fortrade, ECB leaves Interest Rate unchanged at 0.0% & Reduces its monthly purchases

EUR/USD has dropped due to ECB monetary policy meeting results.

This article is originally referred from Fortrade News.

At the ECB meeting held yesterday, the central bank decided to slow down its asset purchasing program in January.

The ECB will reduce its monthly purchases from €60 billion to €30 billion and will extend those purchases until the end of September 2018, or beyond, if necessary.

The ECB also decided to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.0%. Despite the fact that these decisions were expected by the market, the euro fell sharply after the decision was announced.

In just one hour EUR/USD fell 0.5% and by the end of the day it dropped by 1.56%.

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